Hi, I'm Andrei Chira

I'm a WordPress entrepreneur based in Oradea, Romania.

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About me

As the co-founder of Kiravo Hosting, I specialize in making our clients' WordPress websites faster and capable of handling traffic spikes.

I'm also deeply involved in the community as a WordCamp speaker, open-source theme author, translation contributor, and proud WordPress Foundation donor.

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Projects

Main business

Kiravo

Premium WordPress hosting for growing businesses. Focused on the global market with managed WordPress plans.

Hosting Europe
2025

Simplenet Theme

A free simple theme available in the official WordPress.org repository.

Theme Free
2016 — Closed

Fusioncurl

Child themes for the Genesis Framework.

Themes Genesis
2015 — Closed

FasterWP

Tutorials and courses on how to make WordPress faster. Didn't have time to properly take care of it.

Education
2012

Simplenet

An easy way for small businesses to get a brochure-style website powered by WordPress. This project turned into our WordPress hosting business, the main thing we are known for.

Hosting Romania
2009 — Closed

Mujo

Directory of online stores with reviews and ratings, turned into a content website monetised via affiliate links. Moderately profitable, closed it to focus on Simplenet.

Content Affiliate
2008 — Failed

Le Createur

Graphic t-shirts shop. Never profitable.

E-commerce
2007 — Failed

Hiperstore

Online shop selling computers and computer parts.

E-commerce
// SPEAKING

Speaking

WordCamp Romania 2024

Mastering website performance

A deep dive into WordPress optimization.

SEO PPC World 2014

Handling Black Friday traffic

Strategies for handling massive traffic spikes during Black Friday sales.

WordCamp Romania 2014

How WordPress changed my life

My personal storytelling journey growing in the WordPress ecosystem.

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Connect

Feel free to reach out for web hosting, performance optimization, security audit / malware cleanup or just to say hi.